In late 2012, after years of denials, Laotian officials admitted that construction of the Thai-financed Xayaburi dam, on a remote stretch of the Mekong in northern Laos, was under way. New dams ...

Concerns were raised at a forum yesterday over the likelihood of the proposed construction of the Sanakham hydropower project, a run-of-river dam, having a bad impact on Thai communities downstream.